It is not strange even it takes 2 hours to move from one side to the other side of the city. It is really huge city. In the morning and in the evening, there's a rush hour to have a heavy traffic jam. It's quite similar to Tokyo in some way.
However, there's one thing it make two city very very different. that is public transportation "ônibus" and "Kombi".
ônibusônibus is a so to say ordinary bus, but there's a so many different lines and it is quite tough for new comers to know which bus goes to which place.
(I heard even local people can't know if it is the place not familiar, therefore it's nessecary to ask the route etc.)
KombiI felt like a if you know the proper "Kombi route" you can arrive exactly in front of everywhere!
And this in the case of Kombi, they are rather running by private bussinesses, therefore, probably nobody in the Rio knows how many lines do they have! lol!
I was just impressed to see my friend jumps from one bus to another bus and changes the lines from one after another and manage to arrive the exactly the place where she want to go!
The last funny thing(at least for me) was the fee of "ônibus" and "Kombi" was always fixed, regardless to how long you will travel(costs 1.5-4 reals, 0.5-2 euro, 80-300 JPY, usually).
Therefore I travel for 1 hour from center to outside and I paid 2 reals, sometimes I paid 1.5 reals for 5 minutes...
Today's song: "Glamurosa Rainha Do Funk" by Mc Marcinho
